Climate Action Project Placement

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a hardworking individual to join the Climate Action Team for a varied and impactful placement year. You will support the team in facilitating the University of Bath’s whole institution response to the climate emergency across its core mission of research and education and addressing our own impacts.

This placement role offers a fantastic opportunity to be involved in meaningful projects, vital to the University’s work tackling climate change. The exact activities of the role can be partly tailored to the interests and talents of the successful candidate who will make a difference to progress in taking action and engaging our community in transformative change.

This placement offers you an opportunity to gain direct experience of driving forward climate action within the setting of a complex organisation, gaining insight and experience of the common challenges all organisations are facing in addressing this. 

This position is offered full time, fixed term for up to one year.

About you

The team has a broad and diverse remit, and we are open to applicants from any course, but a significant proportion of the work will be working with our team and colleagues across the University working on staff and student comms and engagement programmes (such as LEAF and Green Impact). It is expected that you will take a lead in delivering student-focused comms particularly, but this should not be seen as restrictive – you will be involved in a wide range of activities across all areas.

We are looking for a hard-working candidate who is driven to support and enable climate action across our community at the university. The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following skills and characteristics:

• Initiative and self-motivation: you will be self-motivated and work to agreed timescales and deadlines as agreed with colleagues
• An interest and passion for environmental (climate) issues: you will have an interest in engaging, influencing and persuading others of the need for urgent change
• Good interpersonal skills: you will need to be a clear communicator with the ability to adapt your communication style to suit the audience, and to work with staff and students at all levels
• Team player: we are a small and driven team and will be looking for you to bring your unique perspective as a University student to provide additional insight, perspective and ideas

Further information:

For an informal discussion, please contact:

• Alice Lowe, Climate Action Engagement & Training Manager, at ael52@bath.ac.uk
• Peter Phelps, Climate Action Project Lead, at pp228@bath.ac.uk

What we can offer you:

• a very generous employer contributory pension scheme
• generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• we are a family-friendly University & with an increasingly agile workforce, are open to flexible working arrangements
• an excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities
• a number of support options available for new & existing staff to help with the cost of some immigration expenses which you may be eligible for: Relocation allowance, Visa Reimbursement, Interest-Free Loan.

Find out more about our benefits.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations.

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